Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years

Gregory Maguire

Nov 2011 · Wicked Years Book 4 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this eBook

“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.

Ratings and reviews

This book was a good ending to the series. Left a few questions unanswered but that's the authors choice of course, let us figure it out for ourselves.

I read all four books and I enjoyed them very much, but this last one leaves a lot of unanswered questions. A bit disappointed at the ending. But, like I said definitely enjoyed it and recommend it.

This is a great conclusion to the Wicked Years. It ties everything together and leaves many questions open. It is well with the read whether the other books have been read or not, though they certainly make it better.

About the author

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. He lives in New England and France.